The revamped Olema Inn makes a holiday cameo as it aims for a February opening

The stoves are lit this week at the historic Olema Inn in Marin, but they won’t stay that way for long.

As reported in June, Margaret Grade and Daniel DeLong — a.k.a. the folks behind Manka’s Inverness Lounge, which is currently closed — bought the property (est. 1876) for price tag rumored at $1.65 million. Since then, they’ve been delayed by red tape; the prior owner did a lot of work without permits, so they’ve had to clean up the pieces, making things ADA-compilable and so on.

But that said, the restaurant at Olema Inn is open throughout this week, and this week only. On Christmas Eve and Day, Grade and DeLong offered prix fixe menus, and they’ll do the same on New Year’s Eve. The rest of the week will be a la carte menu. And then, they’ll close the restaurant again, with the plan to reopen on February 14, this time for good.

As for the latest over at Manka’s, which was destroyed in a fire in 2006, things are still moving forward for its resurrection. The drawings for the new version of Manka’s have been completed, and Grade says they’re hoping to begin rebuilding it in the new year.